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In Belize on Saturday the Sports council met to consider the FFB statues as well as those form a new football association. The chairman Allan Sharp told us what was the result of those deliberations..

Allan Sharp, Chairman - Nat'l Sports Council
"Basically both statutes council unanimously agreed not to approve either one on the basis first of all on the NFAB - their application or the statutes was not complete so they have to go back and complete it. In the case of FFB we found about 5 points where the statute has what we call irregularities whereby they need to also fix before coming back to us. Basically there were some articles that are undemocratic. there was some articles that don't follow the rules of FIFA - the FIFA statutes and we also found in the last article - article 84 I believe where the dating of the statute is incorrect in that the date of the 2006 statute and the date of the 2010 statute had the exact same date that they were approve by the general congress yet the enforcement date of the 2006 puts the 2006 date ahead of the 2010 and so there seems to be some mixed up there that these clarification that other points that did not meet the processes stipulated by FIFA."

Jules Vasquez
"It's not the kind of thing that would change overnight. We have now pass July 10th when FIFA told us - had given a deadline for resolution with the difficulty, so it doesn't appear that the sports council will re-register the FFB coming to the end of business on the 11."

Allan Sharp, Chairman - Nat'l Sports Council
"No not here today but what we are asking them to do with them and the NFAB is to go back to their general congress and get the changes made that need to happen."

Jules Vasquez
"But perhaps you don't understand that there is an emergency that FFB is about to suspend Belize. Is it something that the sports council wants to avoid?"

Allan Sharp, Chairman - Nat'l Sports Council "Well nobody wants to have football not played, everybody wish that the thing could be resolve. What we are saying is it is now in the FFB hands to try and get the thing fix."

FIFA had given Belize until July 10th to resolve the impasse between the Sports council and the FFB. Both sides return to court on Thursday of this week.

The game in Honduras is set for Sunday July 17th according to newspaper reports from that country.